They could have waited till 3pm and hit lower to kill a lot more people.

The typical occupancy of the buildings was 50k workers and another few tens of thousands were going through it as visitors/tourists [0]. At the time of the attack there were only ~15K inside the buildings. Of those ~2k were killed.

[0] I had a picture of me on the roof two days before the attack.

> I had a picture of me on the roof two days before the attack.

I almost visited them the week before, but we were running late and didn't have time on that trip.

My Sept 11 experience was not actually realizing anything was really wrong until the afternoon.

I had classes all morning that semester; there were snippets of conversation, a "did you hear" buzz, but nothing really penetrated until I got back to the dorm and found my roommate glued to the TV.

One tower stood for another hour, the other for almost two hours. You can evacuate a lot of people in that time.

Though it's the fire, not the shock that made the buildings collapse.

I wonder sometimes why it didn't fall the first time a plane smacked into it and it burned for days, before 9/11.

Hum, which event are your referring to? I think there were fires and bombings on the WTC before 9/11 but no event where a jetliner dropped tons of jetfuel for a fire to be intense enough to melt the steel structure.

The tower that was hit second collapsed first because the damage and fire was much lower on the building.

And the first might have stood has the second not fallen next to it.

oh yeah? And how do people explain the sudden collapse of wtc7 that was not hit by anything?

"The lack of water to fight the fire was an important factor. The fires burned out of control during the afternoon, causing floor beams near column 79 to expand and push a key girder off its seat, triggering the floors to fail around column 79 on Floors 8 to 14. With a loss of lateral support across nine floors, column 79 buckled – pulling the east penthouse and nearby columns down with it. With the buckling of these critical columns, the collapse then progressed east-to-west across the core, ultimately overloading the perimeter support, which buckled between Floors 7 and 17, causing the remaining portion of the building above to fall down as a single unit. The fires, which were fueled by office contents and burned for 7 hours, along with the lack of water, were the key reasons for the collapse."

- NIST followed by a peer-reviewed summary in the Journal of Structural Engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center

Wikipedia used as propaganda. Well done.

There's no world in which a burning building not hit by a plane would fall as if it was demolished. Sorry to break the news for you.

NIST is trustworthy

"anyone who doesn't have the same narrative as me is a liar/shill"